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Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Two-Sided Polymer Clay Necklace

I want to show the necklace I just made for myself. It has design on both sides – one of those
ideas that make you wonder why you have not thought of it before. It makes perfect sense, right? Shaping and stringing each component takes a
lot of time and effort, so why not double the return by making both sides of
the necklace work.

For this particular piece, I made one side with crackle
technique and another with my Fantastic Filigree technique.

To make the crackled surface, I rolled a very thin layer of
polymer clay on a ceramic tile and briefly heated it with a heat gun. As a result, the very top layer of the clay
was cured, leaving the rest of it still in its raw form. When the raw clay was expended by rolling my
heat-treated polymer sheet through a pasta machine, the crackles appeared. I cut out the parts for my two-sided necklace
elements, baked them, and treated the crackled surface with some white acrylic
paint to make the texture more visible.